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  • Paperback Writer
    Signature won a Pulitzer
    • Nov 2010
    • 5211

    #316
    Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
    http://rukkus.com/blog/college-footb...yer-hometowns/

    Texas produces 13.44% of the college football talent... more than any other state.

    Besides Hawaii, Stanford's (really the Pac-X's, in general) recruits travel the furthest to play football. Lack of local talent?
    Maybe, just maybe, it's because for 8/12 PAC-X schools, recruits don't travel East to California/PNW. In other words, California/PNW isn't exactly centrally located in the USofA.
    “Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory.”
    "All things are measured against Nebraska." falafel

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    • Dwight Schr-ute
      Members Only
      • May 2011
      • 4917

      #317
      A cool series of maps that put time in perspective.

      Putting massive amounts of time in perspective is incredibly hard for humans, so we made this graphic.



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      I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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      • myboynoah
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2008
        • 21719

        #318
        Originally posted by Dwight Schr-ute View Post
        A cool series of maps that put time in perspective.

        Putting massive amounts of time in perspective is incredibly hard for humans, so we made this graphic.



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        Now, for this cause I know that man is nothing, which thing I never had supposed.
        Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

        For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

        Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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        • clackamascoug
          Banned
          • Dec 2009
          • 9709

          #319
          I wonder how old God is, and where he grew up? Did he fish as a kid, and day dream of a brighter day?

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          • creekster
            It is NOT a monkey!
            • Nov 2008
            • 22661

            #320
            Originally posted by clackamascoug View Post
            I wonder how old God is, and where he grew up? Did he fish as a kid, and day dream of a brighter day?
            Just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home.
            PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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            • Northwestcoug
              Cocked and Loaded
              • May 2011
              • 18001

              #321
              Originally posted by Dwight Schr-ute View Post
              A cool series of maps that put time in perspective.

              Putting massive amounts of time in perspective is incredibly hard for humans, so we made this graphic.



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              That's cool, and the commentary is funny. That info would be really cool if someone spruced it up with interactive graphics.
              "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
              "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
              - SeattleUte

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              • BigPiney
                Huge Member
                • Nov 2008
                • 12362

                #322
                Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
                That's cool, and the commentary is funny. That info would be really cool if someone spruced it up with interactive graphics.
                Yeah, like an actual map.

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                • falafel
                  loves to talk on things
                  • Mar 2009
                  • 37952

                  #323
                  Originally posted by BigPiney View Post
                  Yeah, like an actual map.
                  A map of time!
                  Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.

                  Dig your own grave, and save!

                  "The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American

                  "I know that you are one of the cool and 'edgy' BYU fans" -- Wally

                  GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                  • Pelado
                    Bald not naked
                    • Sep 2010
                    • 21136

                    #324
                    Originally posted by falafel View Post
                    A map of time!
                    :mindblown:
                    "I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
                    - Goatnapper'96

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                    • Katy Lied
                      Senior Member
                      • Dec 2008
                      • 9435

                      #325
                      Talking to dad today, I realized he actually did walk miles to get to school. About 7 miles each way. It was a nice walk though. It was fun to plot it while he described the path he took.

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                      • Joe Public
                        8.1 YPC
                        • Apr 2011
                        • 8524

                        #326
                        Do the two routes signify that it was uphill both ways?
                        "What are you prepared to do?" - Jimmy Malone

                        "What choice?" - Abe Petrovsky

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                        • Bo Diddley
                          Senior
                          • Jul 2012
                          • 18782

                          #327
                          Originally posted by Joe Public View Post
                          Do the two routes signify that it was uphill both ways?
                          And I'll be honest--I don't buy the "through two feet of snow" either.

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                          • Uncle Ted
                            The Big 12 money shot.
                            • Apr 2010
                            • 28853

                            #328
                            The Two Americas of 2016


                            Trumps America...



                            Hillary's America...




                            I guess I would rather be on an island in the Great American Ocean than swimming in the middle of a big pond.
                            "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                            "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                            "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                            GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                            • Uncle Ted
                              The Big 12 money shot.
                              • Apr 2010
                              • 28853

                              #329
                              Google Timelapse is pretty cool... You can watch how the earth changed in the last 32 years:

                              Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.


                              Watching places like Houston and DFW grow is interesting. Seeing the snow evaporate in Canada is not so cool.
                              "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                              "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                              "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                              GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                              • Omaha 680
                                Senior Member
                                • Jul 2011
                                • 11180

                                #330
                                Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
                                Google Timelapse is pretty cool... You can watch how the earth changed in the last 32 years:

                                Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.


                                Watching places like Houston and DFW grow is interesting. Seeing the snow evaporate in Canada is not so cool.
                                Dubai and Three Gorges Dam in China. Pretty incredible.

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